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Nathanial LaBrake

Senior Software Engineer
Stanwood,WA

Summary

Senior software engineer with 9 years of software development experience. Skills include backend web development with PHP and C#, with application frameworks including Laravel and WordPress, and Azure functions with C# and NodeJS. Extensive experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and React. Experience in building distributed systems using Microsoft Azure.

Overview

2
2
Certifications
1
1
year of post-secondary education
9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Mindtree Limited LLC
Redmond, WA
09.2017 - Current
  • Built and maintained plugins and a theme for a WordPress site that gets millions of views each month.
  • Built a lightweight custom plugin that replaced the functionality provided by a heavy 3rd party multilingual plugin which allowed pages on the site to be localized.
  • Improved back-end performance by 25%.
  • Improved localization workflow by building an interface in WordPress for exporting and importing content for localization.
  • Used Azure queues and functions to improve user response time and allow for background processing.
  • Built a plugin that enabled users to create scheduled updates of posts that were designed to release large numbers of post updates within seconds or minutes.
  • Increased scheduled update publishing time from 10 seconds per post down to 0.3 seconds per post.
  • Improved code quality by refactoring previously existing plugins and theme templates into a more maintainable class structure.

Web Developer

Nate Creative
Stanwood, WA
09.2012 - 09.2017
  • Developed websites, web applications and software for small businesses.
  • Coding with PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, and mySQL.
  • Created custom WordPress themes and plugins.
  • Developed applications using Laravel framework.
  • Integrated marketing automation software into web pages (such as GetResponse and Aweber).
  • Integrated tracking software such as Google Analytics.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Software Engineering

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
08.2016 - 06.2017

Skills

    Proficient in C#

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Certification

DevOps Certification training

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Mindtree Limited LLC
09.2017 - Current

Bachelor's Degree - Software Engineering

Arizona State University
08.2016 - 06.2017

Web Developer

Nate Creative
09.2012 - 09.2017
Nathanial LaBrakeSenior Software Engineer